{"id":10759,"date":"2024-05-17T02:22:17","date_gmt":"2024-05-17T02:22:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10759"},"modified":"2024-05-17T02:58:17","modified_gmt":"2024-05-17T02:58:17","slug":"wisconsin-lawmakers-push-questions-about-ids-for-illegal-immigrants-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/?p=10759","title":{"rendered":"Wisconsin Lawmakers Push Questions About IDs For Illegal Immigrants, Voting"},"content":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-lawmakers-push-questions-about-ids-for-illegal-immigrants-voting\/<\/a><\/p>\n

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(The Center Square) \u2013 Some Wisconsin lawmakers are trying to calm fears about illegal immigrants getting IDs and voting in the state.<\/p>\n

The Assembly Committee on Campaigns and Elections and the Senate Committee on Shared Revenue, Elections and Consumer Protection held a hearing Thursday with the Wisconsin Department of Transportation, some local election clerks and Fond du Lac County\u2019s district attorney.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe’re not trying to get anybody into a bad spot here, or in a corner, or make accusations on that level,\u201d Sen. Dan Knodl, R-Germantown, said. \u201cWe want our clerks, who are already stressed enough, to know that we are here to be there as an assist to them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rep. Scott Krug, R-Nekoosa, said he wants to make sure voters have faith in Wisconsin\u2019s electoral process.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is one of the topics that hit our inboxes quite a bit the last three months or so,\u201d Krug added. \u201cWe thought it\u2019s pretty important just to vet it out, to get all the information out to the public.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Wisconsin Elections Commission was invited to Thursday\u2019s meeting but didn\u2019t attend because commissioners were having a meeting of their own. But that left lawmakers\u2019 questions unanswered.<\/p>\n

Wis-DOT Deputy Secretary Kristina Boardman said Wisconsin is known as a strict voter ID state.<\/p>\n

\u201cI want to make very clear that Wis-DOT is required to provide free identification cards for U.S. citizens that request them for the purposes of voting, and that to be eligible for that free identification card one must be a U.S. citizen and at least 17 years of age,\u201d Boardman said. \u201cWis-DOT staff do not determine voter eligibility or register anyone to vote. Someone who has a Wisconsin ID or a driver’s license is eligible to register to vote online, and that information will be confirmed with Wisconsin DMV systems to ensure that the information entered for voter registration is consistent with the DMV’s records<\/p>\n

Boardman said in Wisconsin, less than a fraction of one percent of ID requests are fraudulent.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe put together [a] case activity report, assemble all of the documentation that we have, we have the investigator that had the case pull that together, and we do refer that to law enforcement so that they can take whatever action is appropriate,\u201d Boardman added. \u201cWe note what statutes we believe may have been violated. And then it’s up to law enforcement to take action.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This post originally appeared at https:\/\/www.wisconsinrightnow.com\/wisconsin-lawmakers-push-questions-about-ids-for-illegal-immigrants-voting\/ (The Center Square) \u2013 Some Wisconsin lawmakers are trying…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":70,"featured_media":4396,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wi-right-now"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/70"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10761,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions\/10761"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4396"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wifamily.news\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}